What are Chicago Crime Commissions Significant Accomplishments?
The Chicago Crime Commission organization had a great number of accomplishments along the years. For example, for the year 2005, the CCC continued its work on child exploitation and trafficking by partnering with the Salvation Army & Juvenile Court of Cook County ’s PROMISE task force and the statewide Rescue and Restore Steering Committee. The CCC’s Coalition Against The Exploitation, Prostitution and Trafficking of Children held a three-day Human Trafficking & Sexual Exploitation National Training Seminar for 100 law enforcement and criminal justice professionals. The CCC provided law enforcement with intelligence on the events, locations and times for the national “pimp awards” known as the Player’s Ball which resulted in many of the pimps’ events being cancelled. The CCC developed a new media campaign for the highly successful gun-reduction program – Project Safe Neighborhoods. The CCC provided testimony to the Illinois House Judiciary Committee for Senate Bill 0092 to create a new